Understanding Maximilien Robespierre

Date and time: Thursday 9 June 2016, 5.30pm

Location: Bowland auditorium, Berrick Saul building

Admission: is by free ticket only. Please book below.

Event details

The Annual Aylmer Lecture

Maximilien Robespierre is one of the most hotly debated political figures to emerge from the French Revolution. Often hailed as a democrat and a social leveller far in advance of his time on the left, he is reviled on the right as the architect of the Terror of 1793-4 and a proto-totalitarian. What made him tick? This lecture will try to get behind the stereotypes by focussing in particular on the last days of his life, prior to his overthrow on 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794).